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Improvement in Health-Related Quality of Life and Symptoms Following Lipedema Liposuction: A Longitudinal Study.
[BACKGROUND] Lipedema is a chronic fat disorder characterized by disproportionate fat deposition in the lower limbs, leading to pain, mobility issues and reduced health related quality of life (HRQoL).There is growing evidence that liposuct…
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Psychological profile of Taiwanese female cosmetic surgery candidates: understanding their motivation for cosmetic surgery.
[BACKGROUND] Psychological processes consisting of body image and self-esteem are considered key to the motivation for cosmetic surgery (CS). The current study aimed to investigate such processes as well as social support, perception of oth…
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Simulating plastic surgery: from human skin tensile tests, through hyperelastic finite element models to real-time haptics.
In this paper, we provide a summary of a number of experiments we conducted to arrive at a prototype real-time simulator for plastic surgical interventions such as skin flap repair and inguinal herniotomy. We started our research with a ser…
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Randomised clinical trials in plastic surgery: survey of output and quality of reporting.
Randomised clinical trials (RCTs) are considered the best level of evidence when evaluating interventions. Report quality is often used as a surrogate measure of methodological quality, with poorly reported trials assumed to be poorly condu…